Can someone please explain to me the rationale behind renaming the Queensboro Bridge and the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel after former Mayor Ed Koch and former Gov. Hugh Carey, respectively (“Hugh-ge Honor!” Dec. 10)?

Both men did their jobs, got paid well (with benefits) and are now receiving handsome pensions.

The state and city are financially draining New York and are discontinuing public transportation and other important services, while unemployment is at 10 percent.

Yet they have money to make up new signs, and there will probably a big celebration dedicating the newly named bridge and tunnel — and maybe some of it even at the taxpayers’ expense.

D. Rodgers

Flushing

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Mayor Bloomberg did not bother to ask the people of New York City if they want the Queensboro Bridge or Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel to be renamed — just as no one asked about renaming the Triboro Bridge after Robert F. Kennedy.

The political class thinks so highly of itself that it puts its names and the names of its friends on everything, with no input from the public. Instead, they should consider honoring American war heroes or any of the first responders who were killed on 9/11.

George Rubin

Manhattan

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I would have thought that the Brooklyn Bridge, which Koch bravely waved the throngs of walking New Yorkers across during the 1980s transit strike, would carry his moniker.